I am not against having somewhat complicated skill/research trees, but I think the early stages should be simple, then becomes more complex as the player has had more time in-game to learn and make informed choices on the higher tiers.
Which gives me an idea… why not include the skill tree in the difficulty setting? Easier modes would simplify the tree, and kind of “package” skills together.
I’ve always preferred KDE, I tried mint and pop at one point, but wasn’t a fan of either cinnamon or cosmic. After that I ran through a bunch of KDE based distros and landed on Fedora as the one that had plasma 6, wayland, and worked well with my hardware. It’s been about 6 months now and aside from small hiccups it has worked well for me.
Kubuntu was an absolute disappointment, I agree that Canonical has lost the plot.
AFAIK, this is only Android, not AOSP that third-party devs would be using for their ROMs - and AOSP can be forked as well, so there’s no reason that Lineage can’t cut that part out if it did make it into AOSP.
No worries, nothing grouchy sounding there :)
My statement is sourced by me working in R&D in the automotive industry on these modules… an ESP32 does not come close to the amount of computing resources needed to move and process the absolute boat load of information required to make decisions for autonomous driving.
Flying around doesn’t need the same level of object detection, path-finding, decision making and so on that a vehicle that is capable of killing anyone in or around it needs. And on top, it has to be able to do that at highway speeds, without ever making a mistake - because of the killing everyone in or around it part.
Further, it needs to deal with all the random stuff all those people are doing around it all the time… again, without ever making a mistake.
So it needs to be able to see something, identify if it’s something it needs to be concerned about, figure out if it might be doing something that needs to be addressed, make a plan, then execute it… in like a few milliseconds. with a virtually unlimited number of potential obstacles, while obeying traffic laws, and still get the occupant to their destination.
Without killing anyone.
And that’s just the ADAS subsystem.
Soldered, and often in hard to get to places in the vehicle. it’d be easier and more lucrative to strip the wiring for the copper.
With the current level of tech in a car, you’re already likely pushing 300GB in total. There’s dozens of high-compute ECUs doing all sorts of things, running some *nix OS and using anywhere from a couple GB to well… way more.
to reach full driverless capability, those will need to become more powerful, the software will require more memory, and the number of compute modules will likely increase as well for sensors and other stuff.
300GB IMO is probably a conservative estimate.
During prohibition era, there was a brick of dried grapes being sold as a nutrition supplement or something like that, but it had a “warning” sticker attached saying specifically not to dissolve it in a specific quantity of water, and if that were to happen, do not let a specific quantity of yeast to fall in it, and especially not to let it sit for 6 weeks, or else you might end up with wine, which is forbidden!
I can see a cheeky sort of company selling a phone with a little warning label attached to it…
It’s very “hands off”, much like soviet investment in the country. Like, you see tons of Chinese-made cars and buses, their internet and telephony infra is Chinese and farming equipment is often from them as well. However, all of that is implemented and maintained by the Cuban people, where China has sent personnel to other countries to build out that infrastructure.
I think most of their energy and food imports are still Russian though, which of course means the country grinds to a halt pretty quick if that supply is cut. Cuba has basically no petroleum resources and is also heavily dependent on trucks to move good around (as in basically no functioning rail infrastructure and what’s there is soviet-era and thus not compatible with more modern railcars). Add to that what amounts effectively to a blockade both physically and diplomatically from the US, it’s difficult for them to do any meaningful amount of trade.
I have been wondering lately though with the US alienating all of their allies, if Canada and other countries might just start to ignore the US sanctions, but I have a fair amount of doubt still considering that Cuba is still maintaining it’s alliance with Russia.
ETA: Apparently Cuba has been getting most of it’s petroleum from Venezuela lately, and well, that’s not happening anymore.
If you’ve been to Cuba, you would see Chinese investment everywhere.
Not sure how you got that from my comment, or why you decided to be snarky in your reply, but whatever. My statement is that even in their dogma, they’re doing it wrong and if any of it were true, they’d be going to hell regardless.
Raised Catholic, currently atheist:
That’s not really what is said in the bible about forgiveness - it’s very clearly stated that god knows your heart and there is no forgiveness without true penance. That’s not “say 5 hail mary’s and 3 lord’s prayer and you’re all good”, that’s a run-off effect of the middle-ages “indulgences”, where someone could be “forgiven” their sins for a payment to the church.
Actual forgiveness as described several times in the bible explicitly requires the confessor to be truly sorry for their sin (contrition), and a real commitment to do better in the future. This is a fairly concise summary of what the bible says about contrition, confession and forgiveness: https://biblehub.com/topical/c/contrition.htm
TL;DR - There is no forgiveness if you are not truly sorry and if you don’t do your best to be better.
pea-brained gibbering dicksplat
That sounds something from one of those “pick 3 insult generator” sites :p
It does seem they’re suffering from the same rightward-slide that many other countries are facing though, unfortunately.
Cash physically wears out over time, so some amount needs to be re-minted each year to replace the ones that are too worn to be used as currency. In the case of bills, most countries also make updates to the design and materials in an attempt to deter counterfeiting. Coin usually gets small cosmetic changes every so often, like in Canada, every so often the “heads” side is updated with a new portrait of the monarch (currently King Charles)
with trumps track record of firing staff, it could be far less than that too…
It’s generally faster to pick a window than a lock… and by pick a window, I mean throw a rock through it.
usually, put it in a bag and hit it over the head with something… sounds violent, but it’s faster than what the cat wants to do at least.
My cat does the same thing every time he finds a mouse, unless we interrupt him before he can kill it, then he gets quite cross with us.
He usually doesn’t play with them, so if we get to it in time, it’s often uninjured and we try to catch and release outside. If it’s hurt, we give it a quick end so it’s not suffering
it’s a little worrisome that it appears that dumbass may have caused the country to “show it’s hand” in regards to it’s ability to project power, defend itself, and wage an offensive war. 20-something years ago when they pulled the same shit on Iraq they were effectively in Baghdad by dinnertime because they still had so much stuff still working from previous wars like F-14s and Iowa class battleships, not to mention lots of very current ordnance and the help of lots of other countries.
On their own (Israel doesn’t count, it’s basically a US military outpost), against a much more technologically capable and well-armed adversary, there’s lots of cracks that are starting to show some daylight through them.
Doesn’t mean that they’re not a formidable force, but definitely not what they were in the gulf war/desert storm era.
Despite spending an absolutely gobsmacking amount of money every year.